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Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May…
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Activists and telecom experts say the Kenyan government's plan, permitted by the Supreme Court, to track counterfeit phones is "excessive" and threatens privacy (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: Activists and telecom experts say the Kenyan government’s plan, permitted by the Supreme Court,…
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The Surgeon General Is Pushing for a Misguided Social Media Policy
This week, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a long-overdue message warning Americans what they already know: Social media is harming…
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The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Microsoft director of communications Caitlin Roulston says the company is blocking suspicious websites and improving its systems to filter prompts…
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Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption
Jakubowska, who reviewed the document, says that several countries appear to say they would give police access to people’s encrypted…
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Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
Europe’s GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent’s strict data rules…
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Sources: EU privacy regulators fine Meta a record $1.3B over sending user data to the US; the ruling is expected later on Monday (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: Sources: EU privacy regulators fine Meta a record $1.3B over sending user data to…
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A TikTok ‘Car Theft’ Challenge Is Costing Hyundai $200 Million
But wait, there’s more. Each week we round up the security stories we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click on…
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Google plans to migrate 1% of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and disable third-party cookies for them in Q1 2024 and deprecate third-party cookies in H2 2024 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google plans to migrate 1% of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and disable third-party cookies for…
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The Post Office Is Spying on the Mail. Senators Want to Stop It
Each year, at the request of police and intelligence agents across the country, the United States Postal Service conducts surveillance…
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